Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Populism aimed to free the small farmer from debt, and it inspired William Jennings Bryan's free-silver policy, which was designed to put more money into circulation. From Populist roots grew the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota and the Progressive Party headed by Wisconsin's Senator Robert La Follette. The movement also developed its ugly side, later serving as a power base for such back-country bigots and racist leaders as Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge and, eventually, Tom Watson. Today, however, Southern Populism is rural liberalism...
...strongroom safes. Among the spoils they found were the entire weekend receipts from Nice's biggest department stores and the bank's ready cash for the following week. In the safe deposit boxes they discovered the items that might be expected on the French Riviera: gold, silver, jewelry, bonds, rare stamps and paintings. At least one box contained a portfolio of hardest-core pornographic photos, which the looters, in evident appreciation, decoratively pasted on the vault walls...
...attended to their other appetites: they apparently brought along a chef. Using a gas-powered portable stove, he whipped up a four-course meal that included soup, charcuterie, an entrée, dessert and wine. The robbers brought no dishes with them, knowing there would be plenty of fine silver plate available...
...first perfect gymnastic scores. Performing her bold and difficult routines with consummate control, Comaneci (pronounced Com-a-netch) tallied three 10s in the team competition, two in the individual all-around contest, and two in the individual-apparatus competition-showings good enough to win her three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Whether doing backflips on the beam or rocketing herself around the uneven bars, the deceptively frail-looking sprite (she watches her diet strictly-no junk food) was so much in her element that the audience had no more fear of her falling than of a fish drowning...
Reserve has reacted angrily to the ruling and, as it has in the past, threatened to close the Silver Bay plant rather than invest in waste-disposal programs that it says could result in an operating loss of $2.3 million per year. Local residents still hope that a compromise can be reached; shutting down the plant would throw 3,200 employees out of work in an area where there are few other jobs. That prospect has already cast a pall over Silver Bay (pop. 3,500); nearly every family in town has at least one member working at the Reserve...